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1st on Google – Week 28

August 6, 2012 by Alan R Leave a Comment

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 28th update for my attempt to rank first for my name, Alan Reeves. If you missed the any of the posts, you can find the first one here, 27th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 8-5-12 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

#3 – My LinkedIn profile (no change from last week at #3)
#22 – The About page on BlueCapra.com, with picture (up 6 placess from last week at #28)
#38 – My profile on Vimeo – check out my video series Can You Etch It (down 4 places from last week at #34)
#44 – @bookwormlaser on Twitter (down 3 places from last week at #41)
#45 – My profile on Quora (down 2 places from last week at #43)

This week I’m at #3. The first occurrence of a link that is pointing to one of my sites is #22. Overall, my top 5 results decreased 3 places with 2 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places, an improvement over recent weeks. As a whole, I showed up 12 times in the top 100 search results.

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1st on Google – Week 27

July 30, 2012 by Alan R Leave a Comment

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 27th update for my attempt to rank first for my name, Alan Reeves. If you missed the any of the posts, you can find the first one here, 26th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 7-29-12 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

#3 – My LinkedIn profile (no change from last week at #3)
#28 – The About page on BlueCapra.com, with picture (up 4 placess from last week at #32)
#34 – This website, BlueCapra.com, with picture (down 2 places from last week at #33)
#41 – @bookwormlaser on Twitter (down 1 place from last week at #40)
#43 – My profile on Vimeo – check out my video series Can You Etch It (up 1 place from last week at #44)

This week I’m at #3. The first occurrence of a link that is pointing to one of my sites is #34. Overall, my top 5 results increased 2 places with 1 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places. As a whole, I showed up 11 times in the top 100 search results.

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1st on Google – Week 26 – A look at the last 6 months

July 23, 2012 by Alan R Leave a Comment

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 26th update for my attempt to rank first for my name, Alan Reeves. If you missed the any of the posts, you can find the first one here, 25th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 7-22-12 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

#3 – My LinkedIn profile (no change from last week at #3)
#32 – The About page on BlueCapra.com, with picture (down 4 placess from last week at #32)
#33 – This website, BlueCapra.com, with picture (up 6 places from last week at #39)
#40 – My profile on Vimeo – check out my video series Can You Etch It (no change from last week at #40)
#44 – @bookwormlaser on Twitter (down 1 place from last week at #43)

This week I’m at #3. The first occurrence of a link that is pointing to one of my sites is #32. Overall, my top 5 results increased 1 place with 1 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places. As a whole, I showed up 12 times in the top 100 search results. Not a record, but good all the same.

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1st on Google – Week 25

July 16, 2012 by Alan R Leave a Comment

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 25th update for my attempt to rank first for my name, Alan Reeves. If you missed the any of the posts, you can find the first one here, 24th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 7-15-12 (click here to do your own search for Alan Reeves on Google):

#3 – My LinkedIn profile (no change from last week at #3)
#28 – The About page on BlueCapra.com, with picture (up 4 places from last week at #32)
#39 – This website, BlueCapra.com, with picture (down 3 places from last week at #36)
#40 – My profile on Vimeo – check out my video series Can You Etch It (up 2 places from last week at #42)
#43 – @bookwormlaser on Twitter (up 1 place from last week at #44)

This week I’m at #3. The first occurrence of a link that is pointing to one of my sites is #28. Overall, my top 5 results increased 4 places with 1 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places. As a whole, I showed up 10 times in the top 100 search results, up 1 from last week.

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1st on Google – Week 21

June 18, 2012 by Alan R Leave a Comment

Welcome back to my journey to being 1st on Google. This is the 21st update. If you missed the any of the posts, you can find the first one here, 20th Week update here (last week), and the ones in between on my Project page. Below are the results as of Sunday, 6-17-12 (click here to do your own search):

#3 – My LinkedIn profile (up 1 place from last week at #4)
#11 – The About page on BlueCapra.com, with picture (up 2 places from last week at #13)
#31 – My BrandYourself.com profile (up 2 places from last week at #33)
#34 – @bookwormlaser on Twitter (no change from last week at #34)
#44 – My profile on Vimeo – check out my video series Can You Etch It (down 2 place from last week at #42)

This week I am at #3, up from past weeks and a tie for my highest ranking. The first occurrence of a link that is pointing to one of my sites is #11. Overall, my top 5 results increased 3 places with 2 of the top 5 results occurring in the first 25 places. As a whole, I showed up 15 times in the top 100 search results, which is a new record.

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